Archive for October, 2007

New Iraq policy prompts angry words at the State Department – CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — Calling it “a potential death sentence,” several hundred diplomats expressed their resentment Wednesday over a new State Department policy that could force them to serve in Iraq or risk losing their jobs. Some at the hourlong town hall-style meeting questioned […]

Seriously, grab a pair of binoculars and go look to the northeast with them. If you know where Perseus is, then look just below Perseus. You can’t miss it. It’s frickin’ HUGE. Go see the comet. Take your kids outside to see it.

So for some reason I found myself on an ESPN forum where the hottest post (with several thousand comments) was on the evil New England Patriots and how they are “running up the score” on, well on the rest of the NFL apparently. Now I think I’ve been pretty straightforward and honest about my NFL […]

Here’s the beginning line of a promising science fiction story… The spaceship descended slowly, looking like a giant submarine sandwich â€” except it was made of metal, not bread, and was actually more circular and not so much oblong, and most importantly, the green things inside were sentient alien beings capable of interstellar travel, instead […]

Sex ban on the Airbus A380 – Times Online The A380 may have the worldâ€™s first airborne double bed, but it wonâ€™t be put to the obvious use if Singapore Airlines has its way: â€œIf couples used our double beds to engage in inappropriate activity, we would politely ask them to desist,â€ said the companyâ€™s […]

The bi-annual Solar Challenge is underway! Sun-powered desert race: The World Solar Challenge – CNN.com If, by some extraordinary feat of filmic conjuring, you somehow spliced Death Race 2000, Back to the Future and Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, editing out the violence, time travel and transvestism, but keeping in the racing, futuristic cars and […]

I have been remiss in my duties as the Cosmic Conservative…. Check this out. And go outside with binoculars and see if you can find this comet. This is really cool, I’ve been stargazing for 20 years or more and have never seen a comet behave like this. APOD: 2007 October 30 – Comet Holmes’ […]

National Political News – Voters’ views of Pelosi, Congress have dimmed – sacbee.com House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s own party is turning on her, apparently because of a perception among California Democrats that she has not done enough to shake up the status quo in Washington, D.C., according to a Field Poll released Friday. Congress overall […]